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hsa got away from [speaker not understood]. i think it's worth a discussion sort of around prioritization around resource he. should a woman -- she has needs, we want to help everyone who has needs. someone who is here from ohio six months jump into really coveted affordable housing in the city maybe for someone who all their life got moved out in the bayview, and i think it's worth a discussion. >> supportive housing, again, we use supportive housing well. when i say we, i don't mean the city alone. all our nonprofit providers, [speaker not understood]. they do a fantastic job, they do a good job providing quality housing, housing, and keeping folks housed. we wanted to get as many people as shelter as possible. people didn't need to get housing ready. they needed to [speaker not understood]. the vast majority for chronically homeless single adults. we have a number of 43 1 units in the pipeline that should come online over the next two years or two plus years. once they're online, we'll hit our goal over 3,000, 386 units acco
hsa got away from [speaker not understood]. i think it's worth a discussion sort of around prioritization around resource he. should a woman -- she has needs, we want to help everyone who has needs. someone who is here from ohio six months jump into really coveted affordable housing in the city maybe for someone who all their life got moved out in the bayview, and i think it's worth a discussion. >> supportive housing, again, we use supportive housing well. when i say we, i don't mean the...
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so that there is a nutrition program and in fact they are working with hsa around cal works. in primary care programs, obviously, homeless women and homeless families can be served at any one of our neighborhood clinics or any one of our population specific clinics but there are some gender and diagnosis specific programs and they include the urban health clinic transgender klin clinic and a lot of people have heard of the tg tuesday and the women living with hiv/aids and include the primary care for the health department and the urban health center also has a homeless health family teen and mentioned it earlier, and one things is that they have a collecting point and also have the advice at the shelters around the difficult cases. and the ones that i wanted to highlight is that we actually should the teen be and have a very small civilization unit for the moms and in the last month of pregnancy because that is not something that the program otherwise can currently handle and so it can be there in the last month of pregnancy and if they need to go into another program they ca
so that there is a nutrition program and in fact they are working with hsa around cal works. in primary care programs, obviously, homeless women and homeless families can be served at any one of our neighborhood clinics or any one of our population specific clinics but there are some gender and diagnosis specific programs and they include the urban health clinic transgender klin clinic and a lot of people have heard of the tg tuesday and the women living with hiv/aids and include the primary...
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thank you, we will move on to joyce, from hsa. >> and good morning, supervisors, i'm joyce crum and i will be presenting on the department dem graphics and the services provided to women and families. both supervisor farrell and dufty talked about in our home s count, 27 percent of the population were females. also, part of that count, 679 people in 132 families were identified in the count. 95 percent of people in families were sheltered either through transitional housing or other programs, but mostly in shelters. 34 people, which he spoke, were the lowest number of people identified as being in cars or on streets after 7:00 p.m. which is when we began the count. so we administer the homeless prevention funds and i want to highlight some funds that have gone directly to families, 214 family house holds were provided with rental subsidies. in some cases up to 5 years. 120 family households provided with shelter deversion assistness, and which means that they came to connecting point to get on the wait list, in hopes of getting a shelter but, the two deversion specialists that work wi
thank you, we will move on to joyce, from hsa. >> and good morning, supervisors, i'm joyce crum and i will be presenting on the department dem graphics and the services provided to women and families. both supervisor farrell and dufty talked about in our home s count, 27 percent of the population were females. also, part of that count, 679 people in 132 families were identified in the count. 95 percent of people in families were sheltered either through transitional housing or other...
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support services at some of our supportive sites in the city and including bacus and since opening hsa has opening the services and we currently have two case managers and in the youth services specialist, and serving our 47 families, and which include, 85 children and youth and as with some of our colleagues in the community, hsa plan would drasically effect our current staff and cutting the staff by over half, and not because of the program need, but because hsa does not currently over see client referral and placement at 32 of the 47 units this will dramatically alter our ability to provide the necessary and essential services that our families need and we urge you to please take a closer look at the hsa planning to insure sufficient funding to hsa and so that the funding services be based on resident need, rather than on which referring entity does the client referral and placement. thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors and, my name is khelly brown and i work with the community services in the community house where we house 47 formally homeless families.
support services at some of our supportive sites in the city and including bacus and since opening hsa has opening the services and we currently have two case managers and in the youth services specialist, and serving our 47 families, and which include, 85 children and youth and as with some of our colleagues in the community, hsa plan would drasically effect our current staff and cutting the staff by over half, and not because of the program need, but because hsa does not currently over see...
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francisco, it is most frequently cited cause of homelessness, followed by job loss, my colleagues at hsa and the department of public health will describe our service model in more detail but i would like to share the highlights to the services offered to the families. coordinated entry, and wait list, and compass connecting points and transitional housing families who can qualify, can also access assistance from housing counselors, rental subsidies and benefits access assistance and a separate shelter and housing system for domestic violence and the department on the status of women and often time our regular system enter faces with these systems when the stays have ended and they are having difficulty accessing housing, priority for the pregnant women and the families of newborns and the department of public health is funding five rooms at the london hotel and three rooms at star community and services include visiting nurse, and wrap around public health. you are going to hear a lot of discussion about rapid rehousing and this is a central element in the espra proposal for next year's
francisco, it is most frequently cited cause of homelessness, followed by job loss, my colleagues at hsa and the department of public health will describe our service model in more detail but i would like to share the highlights to the services offered to the families. coordinated entry, and wait list, and compass connecting points and transitional housing families who can qualify, can also access assistance from housing counselors, rental subsidies and benefits access assistance and a separate...
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hsa will continue to occupy some of the premises during the renovation. the renovation adds problematic space for hsa including a child care room, a large multi purpose training and meeting room and larger work space for additional staff which hsa will be increasing and hiring as previously approved by the board. the expected cost of the tenant improvements is $1,097,291, of which $232,000 will be paid by the landlord with the remainder paid by the city. this figure increased by $180,000 due to necessary if furniture and equipment for the additional staff not included in the original resolution language, thus the proposed resolution as drafted states an estimated cost for renovations that is lower, but after further review and conference with mr. dave kurdo, who is here today, the budget and legislative analyst recommends the proposal be amended and real estate agrees. funds have been approved through hsa's fiscal year budget through fiscal year 2015. if you have any questions regarding the program or the use of the space and the tenant improvement, as i
hsa will continue to occupy some of the premises during the renovation. the renovation adds problematic space for hsa including a child care room, a large multi purpose training and meeting room and larger work space for additional staff which hsa will be increasing and hiring as previously approved by the board. the expected cost of the tenant improvements is $1,097,291, of which $232,000 will be paid by the landlord with the remainder paid by the city. this figure increased by $180,000 due to...
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i have the hsa budget here. that's not the right number. here it is. >> so, you're going to do the math, supervisor. 15 million for care not cash. another 19 million for master lease on loss, and mc kinney in there. in general fund let's call it 35 million in general money for housing and shelter plus care. in hsa's budget for permanent supportive housing. >> and how many units? >> about 1300 in cap and about another 2200 and, so, i'm doing back of the envelope stuff. i can get you an actual per unit cost. it's about 3500 general fund funded for operational services. >> obviously devil is in the details here. i think as we think about things, i a grief bee with you, looking at those cost arms [speaker not understood]. >> i've done it, i just don't have it with me. >> one question. you talked about, fully agreed with this. if we're doing outreach, the ability to offer something at that point in time. do we have within -- i know you said we have some allocation of shelter beds for either the hot team or other -- >> so, my staff, joyce crumb t
i have the hsa budget here. that's not the right number. here it is. >> so, you're going to do the math, supervisor. 15 million for care not cash. another 19 million for master lease on loss, and mc kinney in there. in general fund let's call it 35 million in general money for housing and shelter plus care. in hsa's budget for permanent supportive housing. >> and how many units? >> about 1300 in cap and about another 2200 and, so, i'm doing back of the envelope stuff. i can...
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we receive most of our funding from the hsa and then as well as the mayor's office of housing and it has been helpful and i thought that i would give you the stats about what has been happening since the new year, organization has saved 268 house holds from going into the eviction process. 168 of those or 63 percent had people who were disabled and 45 of those house holds or 17 percent had a senior, and 18 percent of 47 household had a single parent . where our money is mostly going to, is also to city subsidized housing, of the 268, people that we have helped ofar, 54 percent have gone to the city subsidized housing and about 42 or 16 percent have gone to the federally subsidized housing and the remaining 30 percent are going to private housing. and then the biggest users of our program are the beneficiary in terms of land lords is the clinic followed by the community housing partnership and the ecs and mersy housing and so a lot of our work, is i feel going through the supportive housing, and where maybe, it should be best handled within and i could give you the examples of situati
we receive most of our funding from the hsa and then as well as the mayor's office of housing and it has been helpful and i thought that i would give you the stats about what has been happening since the new year, organization has saved 268 house holds from going into the eviction process. 168 of those or 63 percent had people who were disabled and 45 of those house holds or 17 percent had a senior, and 18 percent of 47 household had a single parent . where our money is mostly going to, is also...
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existing salary savings in the hsa 13-14 budget. as a matter of fact, the department has a total of surplus funds of 10.8 million. so mr. chairman and members of the committee, you might want to criticize, you might criticize the budget analyst for why we did not make further recommended reductions for this fiscal year. we always attempt to be conservative, anything we recommend we are very very conservative and are quite certain that what we have recommended will be far less than what the department could absorb and in this case they've got millions of dollars worth of unexpended savings in salary savings. by the way, that's been consistent, i might add, for the past several years in this department. >> when you ask the department why there is such a big increase, what is their response? >> in terms of the salary savings? >> salary savings. >> basically, it's a problem throughout the city. it's with the human resources department it's difficult, there is turnover, when you have 27,000 employees in an operation, it is very difficult
existing salary savings in the hsa 13-14 budget. as a matter of fact, the department has a total of surplus funds of 10.8 million. so mr. chairman and members of the committee, you might want to criticize, you might criticize the budget analyst for why we did not make further recommended reductions for this fiscal year. we always attempt to be conservative, anything we recommend we are very very conservative and are quite certain that what we have recommended will be far less than what the...
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this was again, a drink between hsa and ourselves. it took 7 years for the federal government to take knowledge. we had a hard time getting paperwork and the background of medical services and they could have. this is population that is the most difficult to get into with the assistance that we have. [speaker not understood]. if we identify somebody with schizophrenia, they can automatically get on medi-cal and take the time to get the paperwork done. so, this is a really important program. and, again, it took us 7 years that this was an important pilot, along with santa cruz county acseeds in san francisco, but also shares throughout the country. on housing area, you've heard a lot about the housing area. direct access to housing, supportive housing is about 17 and we still have some in the pipeline coming. emergency stabilization bids have been very important for us. in the aspect of trying to get somebody the more stabilized, getting the benefits on board, getting their ids to be qualified, in the past what we've done is come back
this was again, a drink between hsa and ourselves. it took 7 years for the federal government to take knowledge. we had a hard time getting paperwork and the background of medical services and they could have. this is population that is the most difficult to get into with the assistance that we have. [speaker not understood]. if we identify somebody with schizophrenia, they can automatically get on medi-cal and take the time to get the paperwork done. so, this is a really important program....
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if you need a physical exam for a new job, hsa. birth control pills, hsa. no hobby lobby. what happens? you are not impending upon your major medical attacks the cup -- tax would cost him. >> host: lets live in the real world where we have insurance lobbies and insurance companies and hospitals him all these people who have gotten rich off of that. health care is among the fastest-growing sectors in our economy. it's considered a money-maker in our semi-private sector and i say semi, because without medicare it would be essential so how do you enact a plan in the world we live in? >> guest: keep in mind what i'm talking about, insurance is insurance in it all works basically the same way. like your homeowners insurance if you have a high deductible guess what happens to the price of that? it plummets. if you want everything taken care of guess what happens? the same thing. exactly the same. >> host: chapter chapter 7 you use these phrases leaving our children the chapter on the debt. some of the language and abused as certainly, you talked about the politically correct pol
if you need a physical exam for a new job, hsa. birth control pills, hsa. no hobby lobby. what happens? you are not impending upon your major medical attacks the cup -- tax would cost him. >> host: lets live in the real world where we have insurance lobbies and insurance companies and hospitals him all these people who have gotten rich off of that. health care is among the fastest-growing sectors in our economy. it's considered a money-maker in our semi-private sector and i say semi,...
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a separate youth count was done this year and this is the best practice in the homeless count and hsa will talk about those numbers, but 914 people under 25 are identified as homeless. and 25 percent were former foster youth and 30 percent lgbtq and we understand that we are just seeing a snapshot, or a portion of this problem, because getting an accurate count of homeless young people is extremely challenging because many transitional aged youth, especially young people of color do notify as homeless even though they are homeless and they are couch surfing. and a researcher at uc berkeley has been working closely with us and she is a national leader in developing new methods for accounting and assessing the needs of this population. and she is here today and she will speak during public comment. and a 300 street based youth that she interviewed, 41 percent were actively trying to leave the street, including signing up for drug treatment and enrolling in school and trying to save for a apartment, and this shattered the myth that somehow the young people want to be homeless in san fran
a separate youth count was done this year and this is the best practice in the homeless count and hsa will talk about those numbers, but 914 people under 25 are identified as homeless. and 25 percent were former foster youth and 30 percent lgbtq and we understand that we are just seeing a snapshot, or a portion of this problem, because getting an accurate count of homeless young people is extremely challenging because many transitional aged youth, especially young people of color do notify as...
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hsa directly provides trainings, particularly we're focused on providing the access for persons with disabilities training, and we have previous years created a shelter training manual that covers these issues but we have the shelters manage that because they're hiring and dealing with staff time, and then another large component of the training has come from the department of public health and when the standards of care were first approved dph was offering trainings and hsa would coordinate to make sure shelter staff signed up for that and that covered health related topics and safety and health hygiene and so forth and there were a number of years that couldn't be done and their staff is now focused on doing some of the trainings where you see that component increased in the current fiscal year and again that was not in place for the report year that you have. to that end we are working with dph and the shelter monitoring committee to identify the items they're going to cover in training so we can focus training on additional items but to that end this morning we trained 75 staff f
hsa directly provides trainings, particularly we're focused on providing the access for persons with disabilities training, and we have previous years created a shelter training manual that covers these issues but we have the shelters manage that because they're hiring and dealing with staff time, and then another large component of the training has come from the department of public health and when the standards of care were first approved dph was offering trainings and hsa would coordinate to...
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hsa staff began in 2014, sublease now before you is retroactive to april one, 2014. and as known in the budget analyst report, the master lease, between 1238, llc and the child abuse prevention center was amended five times between october 2011, and september 2013. some of the amendments were a bit confusing in nature. and we had some areas of conflict that we needed to work with the non-profit to fully understand the import of all of those amendments and what rights will be flowing to the city as the subleasee. and i have to say that i have been doing this stuff, for 30 some years, and this is the first time that i have seen a lease that was three years old and already on the fifth amendment and that is pretty unusual. that created an issue of complexity for us to navigate through, and frankly it was a real partnership with the center and i want to thank them for being very transparent in helping us understand the relationship between the landlord, tenant and then to us as subtenant and so additionally this project involves portioning a cost across the sublease spac
hsa staff began in 2014, sublease now before you is retroactive to april one, 2014. and as known in the budget analyst report, the master lease, between 1238, llc and the child abuse prevention center was amended five times between october 2011, and september 2013. some of the amendments were a bit confusing in nature. and we had some areas of conflict that we needed to work with the non-profit to fully understand the import of all of those amendments and what rights will be flowing to the city...
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that's coming out of your hsa. you need a physical exam? hsa. birth control pills? hsa. no hobby lobby. so what happens? you're not impinge upon your major medical. what happened to the cost of the? >> guest: well, it should come down. now let's live in the real world or we have insurance lobbyists and the insurance companies and hospitals and all these people who have gotten rich. health care is among the fastest growing sectors in our economy. is considered a money maker in the semi-private sector. i say semi-because we know without medicare and without some of these things, so how do you enact your plan in the world we live in? >> guest: well, keep in mind what i'm talking about insurance, insurance is interest. it all works basically the same. like your homeowners insurance. if you have a high deductible, guess what happens to the price of its? it plummets. if you want everything taken care of, guess what happens? same thing. exactly the same. >> host: chapter seven you use the phrase enslaving our children. it's a chapter on debt. some of our language -- your langua
that's coming out of your hsa. you need a physical exam? hsa. birth control pills? hsa. no hobby lobby. so what happens? you're not impinge upon your major medical. what happened to the cost of the? >> guest: well, it should come down. now let's live in the real world or we have insurance lobbyists and the insurance companies and hospitals and all these people who have gotten rich. health care is among the fastest growing sectors in our economy. is considered a money maker in the...
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supervisors, on page, the bottom of page 10 of our report, the last paragraph there where it says that hsa has a total of 157.2. the department provided us with updated information and we now would revise that number to 152.2, or 5 positions less than the 157.2, and these are across the relevant classifications that we're talking to today. on page -- well, i can go now to our recommendations. first of all our first recommendation on page 12 is to reduce this requested supplemental appropriation by 1349.58, as i understand the department concurs with our recommendation. that's recommendation no. 1. on recommendation no. 2, we're recommending with respect to all of these positions that instead of a hire date of april 1st that it be may 1st. as i understand it, the department concurs with that recommendation. so it is the third recommendation that we have a disagreement on. and in that third recommendation, based on the new information provided by the department that there are 5 positions which we had previously identified as being vacant which are in fact filled positions, therefore we concu
supervisors, on page, the bottom of page 10 of our report, the last paragraph there where it says that hsa has a total of 157.2. the department provided us with updated information and we now would revise that number to 152.2, or 5 positions less than the 157.2, and these are across the relevant classifications that we're talking to today. on page -- well, i can go now to our recommendations. first of all our first recommendation on page 12 is to reduce this requested supplemental appropriation...
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and the next one, i want to ask trent war to come up director of hsa. it is obviously integrally involved in this from the city perspective and trent i want to thank you for all of your leadership. thanks for being here. >> my pleasure, supervisors. >> trent, director of human services agency. and mice to see you all again. we are loading up the presentation, now. >> so what i am going to attempt to do today, is give you an overview of the housing that is in hsa's portfolio and how the homeless are access that housing and how they are referred and attempt to layout the funding structure, which is a new one, and that began, on july of this year, 2014. and this was a new funding structure around how we fund and the amount of funding for the houses and this was done at the request of the human services commission in an attempt to bring a little bit more rationality to how we fund the establishment of units in terms of services. so, the first slide, there we go. and i believe that you saw this last week when joyce presented to you all, but i thought it was
and the next one, i want to ask trent war to come up director of hsa. it is obviously integrally involved in this from the city perspective and trent i want to thank you for all of your leadership. thanks for being here. >> my pleasure, supervisors. >> trent, director of human services agency. and mice to see you all again. we are loading up the presentation, now. >> so what i am going to attempt to do today, is give you an overview of the housing that is in hsa's portfolio...
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turns out that while there are three departments that serve about 70% of our workforce clients, oewd, hsa and dcyf, there are some 14 departments that say they administer some sort of workforce development program. given all of the departments involved, the report concluded that since we have been lacking a city-wide assessment, we need one. we need an analysis of labor demand around town. we need a map of our existing programs and standardized performance measures. and what i'd like to do, colleagues, is first invite [speaker not understood] campbell from the budget office to give a brief presentation about their findings and then i'd like to summarize our legislation. ms. campbell. >> good morning, chair breed, president chiu, supervisor tang. [speaker not understood] campbell from the legislative analyst and budget analyst's office. i have a brief presentation here. so, president chiu's request, we did sort of go back and reevaluate what we had found in our 2007 management audit of the city's workforce development system. as you see from the slide here, in fiscal year 13-14, the city-w
turns out that while there are three departments that serve about 70% of our workforce clients, oewd, hsa and dcyf, there are some 14 departments that say they administer some sort of workforce development program. given all of the departments involved, the report concluded that since we have been lacking a city-wide assessment, we need one. we need an analysis of labor demand around town. we need a map of our existing programs and standardized performance measures. and what i'd like to do,...
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the great thing about an hsa, people get confused. if any company doesn't offer it, can i still open one? you need to be in a high deductible plan but if your company does not have an hsa and you have a high deductible plan you can do it through a bank or broker and then you put that money in tax free. it grows tax deferred. if you use it for taxed medical expenses you take that money out tax free. >> thank you so much. that's the show for today. thank you so much for joining us. we will see you next time. [ticking] >> when ali allawi took over as iraq's minister of finance in 2005, he was confronted with a gaping hole in the treasury. more than a half a billion dollars that was supposed to equip the new iraqi army had been stolen from the ministry of defense by the very people the u.s. entrusted to run it. >> that's a lot of money. >> it's one of the biggest thefts in history, i think. >> most of the iraqi officials involved, including the former minister of defense, have skipped the country, but we found one of his deputies vacation
the great thing about an hsa, people get confused. if any company doesn't offer it, can i still open one? you need to be in a high deductible plan but if your company does not have an hsa and you have a high deductible plan you can do it through a bank or broker and then you put that money in tax free. it grows tax deferred. if you use it for taxed medical expenses you take that money out tax free. >> thank you so much. that's the show for today. thank you so much for joining us. we will...